not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Reading "I Leap Over the Wall," a 1950 memoir by Monica Baldwin, who entered a cloistered convent in 1914 and left it like a dazed and blinking time traveler into the wildly different world of 1941, and it is FASCINATING. I'm having a wonderful time so far.

Delighted to announce that the MURDERFISH anthology is now live!! Containing a whole bunch of great stories and cool art, all about murderous fish, including my own story "In Sheets of Seaweed." Ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/ Paperback: www.amazon.com/Murderfish-A... Audiobook: coming soon!

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

You know that feeling when you're reading along going "wow, this book is SUCH AN ID VORTEX, it's hilariously over the top, I wonder how it's going to stick this landing???" In this case, readers: it did not 😅

This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥 booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...

my beautiful wife, handing me this month's book club book, which happens to be by Ursula Le Guin: "what about DEEZ... possesseds"

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

In other news, an easy fast to anyone dating tomorrow, and if you're observing Yom Kippur with or without fasting, may it be meaningful ❤️

I'm not someone who's usually much affected by the deaths of famous people I don't know, but the news today of Jane Goodall's #death hit hard. Dying at 91 of natural causes after a long life well and energetically lived is pretty much all one can ask, but still.

I don't object to this new feature existing as I'm sure filtering out unknown languages improves the experience for a lot of people, but I loathe that it was turned on for me by default.

CAN'T WAIT

I hate vulture capitalism and I hate everything about this but fyi, sewing friends

Quit doomscrolling and come watch Crunchyroll get their ass handed to them in the comments of this innocuous-seeming post! It's a good time for everyone!

it was a genuinely fascinating double header! both extremely fun but VERY different takes on the music industry, lol

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Every award ceremony should have this.

Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!

Congrats again to all the Hugo nominees, and HUGE CONGRATS to all the Hugo winners!! ...And extra huge congrats to Emily Tesh and my beautiful wife Rebecca Fraimow for HUGO-WINNING BEST FANCAST podcast Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones!!!

Courtesy of catsitter friend, please behold Mina when she sneaks up behind you on the bed and judges you for not playing with the string toy already

#uspolitics The direct line to the HHS secretary's office is 202-690-7000, as mentioned in a reply this; I just called and left a polite but emphatic voicemail about RFK Jr's horrific decision about mRNA vaccine research funding. Let's give 'em hell about this.

I was complaining to/with friends about how I'd like a number-go-up kind of challenge to get me to walk more but I don't want my data auto-synced to a corporation about it! I just want a step counter! Not to be a health tracking surveillance big data point!

LOOK AT HER! THIS IS THE VISION!!! the bubble skirt and big faux-innocent eyes .... thank you so much @sqbr.bsky.social, I'm in love with this

Really enjoyed this perspective!

It's comin'... Details here: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

omg I'M STOKED

I have one (1) go-to digital preservation joke but staying funny means making it lots of times in lots of locations--

I never thought to see something like this in my lifetime, what a profound joy

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

RIP to a true legend. Some of the wittiest and funniest musical comedy ever to be, and by all accounts I've seen every bit as good a person

Delighted to announce I have a story forthcoming in the "Murderfish" anthology from Wonderbird Press. The Kickstarter is live now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...

Discover the spaces in between with THE LEGEND LIMINAL by @voidcricket.bsky.social! Preorder your copy of this moving, surreal novella now. Out September 30 exclusively from Stars and Sabers Publishing. Many thanks to Rebecca Fraimow for the quote. #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #books

#uspolitics Yeah, I know this because a friend told me but I haven't seen it in a lot of posting about it. This SUCKS and is infuriating but it's not 100% passed yet.

A local Gaza mutual aid group is trying to raise funds right now. Food is running out and one of the student's fathers needs surgery. Any help is appreciated!! mutualaidgaza.org

Absolutely delighted to announce that I have a story in SHATTER THE SUN! I had a fabulous time leaning into the pulp melodrama with my warrior (& her giant cat friend, & a mage she doesn't fully trust...) forcibly repatriating her people's sacred objects. Can't wait to see the other stories & art!

Carefully curated pop science and pop history, and the kind of speculative fiction and historical fiction that's 80% material culture/daily life/worldbuilding by volume. A solid chunk of the inventory is used books and there's just SO much nature art painted on the shelves and in random corners.

... ... ... okay I am dead of giggling basically

This meme asks a really good question about why the thresher shark has such expressive eyes & why those eyes always seem so concerned or shocked. What's up, in other words, with the squaliform side-eye? I have an answer!

my most important opinion is that all regional pizzas are vital parts of the overall pizza ecosystem. you hate chicago deep dish? then you hate pizza. you hate provel cheese? you hate pizza. you hate little caesar? he is the emperor. show some respect. all pizza is canon

i love the gentle mildly haunting call of the baked sweet potato truck floating through the streets in the evening

I am so honored and thrilled to have some of my pottery in the Pages to Palette art show opening this evening, celebrating Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower! thelocalhand.shop/products/5-2... Anybody local who feels like stopping by, it's 6-8 pm at The Local Hand in Dorchester.

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’ve never respected a Harvard student more than right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Hi guys. On world bee day today, don't forget that honey bees are actually doing ok! It's solitary and subsocial native bees like mason bees and bumblebees that need our help. I'll post some resources in this thread on how you could help them, even if you don't have a yard to plant native flowers!

#israel #palestine "no other land" is available streaming in the US through tomorrow; I watched it yesterday with friends and it's well worth seeing if you're up for it

i'll have this little turkish map fold zine called "soil survey" at seattle art book fair this upcoming weekend (may 10-11) at washington hall! come by and say hi!

Oh, wow, this new proposal is AWFUL. (The 2021 proposal, involving rotaries and more parkland, is intriguing! The existing intersection conglomeration does in fact suck! This latest update looks miserable for everyone except car commuters.) Comments are open until May 8, and I've left one saying so.

this is why you shouldnt believe what you see on the internet. It was actually closer to 50 years. His name was Porphyrios, he actually caused the creation of entirely new trading routes just to avoid him and was declared enemy of the state by Justinian. He is the hero we need.